考研英語閱讀:皮爾卡丹：時尚風(fēng)格轉(zhuǎn)變太快

Fashion Changes Too Fast: Pierre Cardin

皮爾卡丹：時尚風(fēng)格轉(zhuǎn)變太快

Today's fashion designers change styles much too fast, partly due to twice-yearly collections, making it harder to create couture that lasts for years, designer Pierre Cardin said on Tuesday.

服裝設(shè)計師皮爾·卡丹周二說，現(xiàn)在的服裝推陳出新的速度太快了。一年兩次的時裝發(fā)布會使得設(shè)計師很難設(shè)計出經(jīng)典的服裝款式。

In Tokyo for a show co-sponsored by a Japanese department store, the 88-year-old doyen of French fashion also said that it is now much harder for designers than when he first started in the business roughly 60 years ago.

皮爾·卡丹是在東京參加由某日本百貨商場共同贊助的時裝秀時發(fā)表上述觀點的。這位 88 歲的法國時裝界元老還說，現(xiàn)在當(dāng)個服裝設(shè)計師要比他 60年前剛踏進這一行時難得多。

“After the war, there were very few designers. Now there are so many designers around the world, in every country.

他在新聞發(fā)布會上說： “戰(zhàn)爭結(jié)束那會兒，服裝設(shè)計師緊缺。而現(xiàn)在滿世界都是服裝設(shè)計師。

It is impossible to change the fashions every year, every six months,” he told a news conference.

根本不可能每年甚至每六個月就轉(zhuǎn)變一次時裝風(fēng)格。 ”

“There are lots of designs that are very beautiful, crazy, fantastic on the eyes, but they are not making fashion for tomorrow.

“現(xiàn)在的很多服裝設(shè)計都很漂亮，創(chuàng)意絕倫，吸引眼球，但這些服裝不是面向未來設(shè)計的。

You can see it anywhere... but four or five years later, no fashion.”

你到處都可以看見它們，然而四五年過后，這些衣服就不再時尚。 ”

Cardin also said that when he launched his own label in 1950 he was told that what he was doing was “impossible” and that only belief in himself and obsession carried him through.

卡丹還說，當(dāng)他在1950年開創(chuàng)自己的品牌時，人們都說他在做一件“不可能成功的事情” ，是他對自己的信念和對服裝設(shè)計的癡迷才幫助他走到了今天。

“At the time I was told that trying to make what I did was like trying to walk on the moon-impossible.

他說： “那時候別人告訴我，我想要做到的事情就好比是月球漫步，是不可能的。

It was my strategy to believe that one day a man goes up,” he said. “My work was like an addiction. That’ s why I’ ve been able to do it for so long.”

但我相信，一個人總有一天會熬出頭。 ”“我癡迷于我的工作，這也是我為什么能夠堅持做這么久的原因。 ”

Cardin has become a household name on products around the world from couture clothing to alarm clocks.

皮爾·卡丹現(xiàn)在已經(jīng)成為全世界家喻戶曉的名字，他所經(jīng)營的產(chǎn)品從時裝到鬧鐘，一應(yīng)俱全。

He was the first Western couturier to turn to Japan as a high fashion market in the late 1950s and later China in 1975.

他也是首個開辟日本和中國高級時裝市場的西方設(shè)計師，在20世紀(jì)50年代末和1975年分別進軍日本和中國。

 

 

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